The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-04-02

We can not answer for them all.
Nor can we repress the thought that
had they all taken root and ripened and
risen in luxuriant loyeliness what
harvest of bustles there would have
have beeni But. like other tender and
precarious vegetation, bustles had to
take their chances-and more, too.
Some OF them. as before, fell TO the
cupidity of Sherman's Christian sol
diers, who relentlessly uprooted them;
other, after the passage OF military
peril were resurrected to be trans
planted elsewhere. and others still, be-
ing unmarked. were never found by
| those who had hastily and hopefully en-
tombed them.
But great and unexpected day had
dawned for bustles. OF the number
/ that were left in the earth a vast pro-
portion of those which had been filed
with sawdust in time took root. and ex-
uberantlY biossomed and fourished.
Those which had contained cotton,
however. went generally TO seed.
We would say here that from this
startling botanic phenomenon and the
impressive date and situation we have
been enabled to locate Enthusiastically
the rise and progress of the American
hustle; and we been convinced, too.
that nothing short of the most pertina-
cious and painstaking care and watch
funess could have brought this indis-
pensable appurtenance of modern fe-
male beauty to its present extraordI-
nary size. vigor. and variety
We have not space 10 fully present
our deductions from the important cir
cumstanees that surround the hustle or
from the beautiful physiological female
creations that stand Immediately in
front of It We can not contrast the
early and almost unnoticeable product
we saw planted in the past with the
prodlgious and illimitabie fruit of our
days without the encroachment of won
der upon our thoughts and sublime and
poetic tendency toward blank verse
: Ii we view the matter in a practical
and dispassionate vein. We are forced
to the conviction that bustles make a
better crop for profitable or ornamental
farming than breadstuffs. We believe
there is no known abridgement to its
dimensions. and that faithful and as
: sIduous tillage will produce bustles oi
' good quality quite as large ut least as
I hot air balloons. There must be more
2 money in crop of bustles OF this sIzt
g than in several bales of cotton.
: When the hustle has been developed
to its probable limit we think the lady
n who wears one will escape recognition
/ il not, indeed. observation On a re
+ cent visit to Augusta our attention wa
IT called to hustle of the pneumatic
IL species. Tins is graft of the bulb va
riety, and is filed with atmospheric oxy
" gem 1t was propelling young lady be
CT fore it much as a perambulator is eng
n neered oy a nurse The hustle was tl
r admiration of one of the main thoI
le oughfares of Augusta The lady turne
n to gaze upon the elegant stationary i
e the Chronicle windows. Being then o
I'd a profile the effect was at its best Sh
IN wore a terra Gotta chimney OF hat an
as with the prolongation of her bod
is growing out of the new pneumatic
ic hustle resembied very closely rurf
summer cottage with a stove fiue fixe
he at one end Modisticiar has indee
as trenehed closely on anatomical perfe
ed ton when an exquisite female for
OF can be made 70 counterfeit far
We shanty with q ventilating shaft at ii
sr- gable
he The department of agriculture wi
d. confer national blessing by distrIbu
be ing the seed of this hustle free
should like to alternate the pneumat
ms variety of adjustable hustle with Be
of muda grass or Bermuda onions
as Greensboro (Ga.) Home JotsrnaL